Topic > face

Face++, a face recognition technology provider, announced that it netted $22 million of Series B funding at a valuation of over $100 million from a consortium led by Qiming Ventures and Series A investor Innovation Works. The angel round was raised from Legend Star, the incubation program under Lenovo.

According to the study of 4,600 adults, 12 percent of us would want to purchase wearable technology, like glasses, on our face. That’s almost 22 million Americans. But more than twice as many — 28 percent — are interested in wrist-based wearable devices. That’s almost 50 million people.